The "tradition" has apparently been around in more wars than one.

A quick look, based on the "chamber lye" title that I happened to think I remembered finds two entries in my personal index:

Chamber Lye &see John Harrolson (Saltpeter Song)        SingOutV40N3
Chamber Lye &see Von Hindenberg        VulVer        

SingOut! Volume 40 No 3 included a reference, and possibly lyrics and tune(?), to "Chamber Lye" and to the essentially identical "John Harrolson," who was claimed to have been the "Confederate Officer" responsible for recruiting young(?) ladies to "pee in a pot" for the Confederacy. Reported also as a.k.a. "The Saltpeter Song."

A Book Of Vulgar Verse by "A Gentleman About Town," published by Checkerbooks, Inc., 1981, ISBN 0-89009-411-X would be possibly more difficult to find; but my recollection is that it gave lyrics in which "Von Hindenberg" replaced John Harrolson as the "collector of the pots" - presumedly during the WWI(?) era.

Both books apparently are among the 60 or 80 boxes packed for our most recent move, and inaccessible at present.

John